As Custom Is - edit

[dukealien]

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I met another man
at our mailbox cluster
and we both gestured
mumbling “Go ahead” as custom is.

So without jostling
we said “Thanks,” “No prob,”
“Have a good one,”
he addressing me as “brother”
and I him as “sir.”

Then we went our ways
each self-satisfied
though he knew perfectly
that I was not his brother
and I had my doubts
he was a gentleman
and both of us had really
wanted to go first.

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Thanks to all the critics - great having many to quadrangulate.  Thought about "kiosk" for the mailbox complex, but it has no roof.  Used to have one in a sort of cabana, but no more... heigh, ho, the wind and the rain.